BirdNote; Carol of the Birds - With Nancy Rumbel

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Carol of the Birds
Arranged and Performed by Nancy Rumbel
This is BirdNote!
[Refrain from “Carol of the Birds”]
To celebrate the season, Nancy Rumbel, who composed and played the BirdNote theme music, performs “Carol of the Birds” with some of her friends.
[“Carol of the Birds” arranged and played by Nancy Rumbel with the accompaniment of Pine Siskins, Black-capped Chickadees, a Red-winged Blackbird, Song Sparrow, House Finch, American Goldfinch, and Mourning Dove.]
Happy Holidays from all of us at BirdNote.
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Nancy Rumbel plays the ocarina, oboe, bell, and harmonium.
Sounds of the birds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Red-winged Blackbird by W.W. H. Gunn: Call of the Song Sparrow by G.A. Keller: House Finch by G.A. Keller; American Goldfinch by D.A. Sibley; Pine Siskin by G.A. Keller; Call of the Mourning Dove by W.R. Fish; Call of Black-capped Chickadee by R.S. Little.
Song of Black-capped Chickadee recorded by Martyn Stewart, www.naturesound.org.
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
© 2014 Tune In to Nature.org December 2016/2019 Narrator: Mary McCann
ID# christmas-03-2012-12-25 christmas-03b
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BirdNote
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Carol of the Birds - With Nancy Rumbel
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To celebrate the season, Nancy Rumbel, who composed and played the BirdNote theme music, performs "Carol of the Birds." This version was arranged by Nancy herself, with the accompaniment of Pine Siskins, Black-capped Chickadees, a Red-winged Blackbird, Song Sparrow, House Finch, American Goldfinch, and Mourning Dove. Nancy plays the ocarina, oboe, bell, and harmonium.
Created Date
2019-12-25
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Episode
Subjects
Birds
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Sounds for BirdNote stories were provided by the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Xeno-Canto, Martyn Stewart, Chris Peterson, John Kessler, and others. Where music was used, fair use was taken into consideration. Individual credits are found at the bottom of each transcript.
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00:01:45.195
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Writer: Rumbel, Nancy
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Chicago: “BirdNote; Carol of the Birds - With Nancy Rumbel,” 2019-12-25, BirdNote, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-dbedd839047.
MLA: “BirdNote; Carol of the Birds - With Nancy Rumbel.” 2019-12-25. BirdNote, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-dbedd839047>.
APA: BirdNote; Carol of the Birds - With Nancy Rumbel. Boston, MA: BirdNote, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-dbedd839047